San Francisco County Biographies
C. R. SPLIVALO & CO.
Transcribed 9-4-04 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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Is one of the representative and successful business firms
of San Francisco. The California Italian Paste Company was established in 1857,
and Mr. Splivalo became owner of the same in 1872. In 1876 he started the
California Flour Mills, which were burned in 1881, and the next year, in company
with S. W. Forman, they built the Yosemite Flour Mills at No. 1066 and 1068
Bryant street, on lots with a frontage of 162-1/2 feet. Their mill is of brick,
three stories and a basement, and the paste and box factories are located
together, having their office at No. 321 Sacramento street. Mr. Forman retired
from the business in 1885, and Mr. Polastri took his place in the firm, which
became C. R. Splivalo & Co. They are provided with the best machinery, employ
forty men, and produce large quantities of choice floor and Italian paste.
Large quantities of the flour is used by city bakers of San Francisco, and their
products are shipped to all the States and Territories west of the Rocky
Mountains, to the Sandwich Islands, Japan, China, Australia, British Columbia,
Mexico and South America. From the incorporation of the business it has had a
steady increase, and each year shows increasing trade and larger sales. The
firm also own 500 acres of land at Belmont, which they are improving for a dairy
ranch, and its product is to be sold in San Francisco. They are engaged in
various other enterprises, both as a firm and personally. They are men of
excellent business ability, and have a bright future before them.
The gentlemen who compose the firm are young business men, and both came to
San Francisco when children. Mr. Splivalo was born in Lima, Peru, in 1849, and
came to this city the same year. He was educated in the Santa Clara College,
and has been identified with this State and city all his life, and new resides
with his family in a fine home of his own building at Belmont.
R. S. Palastri was born in Panama while his parents were on their way to
San Francisco, and he received his education in the public schools of this city.
Previous to the incorporation of his present business, he was engaged in the
hardware trade. He is also married, and resides in San Francisco, and is a
Californian in every sense of the word.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 490, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.